The Denver Post

Fact Check: The candidates and the issues.

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A look at how their statements from Nashville, Tenn., stack up with the facts:

BIDEN: “Not one single person with private insurance would lose their insurance under my plan, nor did they under ‘ Obamacare,’ they did not lose their insurance, unless they chose they wanted to go to something else.”

THE FACTS: He’s wrong about “Obamacare.”

Then- President Barack Obama promised if you liked your health insurance, you could keep it under his Affordable Care Act, but that’s not what happened for some.

When “Obamacare” took effect in 2014, several million people lost individual health insurance plans that no longer met minimum standards establishe­d by the law. A backlash forced the White House to offer a workaround, but the political damage was done.

TRUMP on his taxes: “They keep talking about $ 750, which I think is a filing fee. ... Tens of millions of dollars ( in income taxes) I prepaid.” On his China bank account: “I was a businessma­n in 2013 and I closed the account in 2015.”

THE FACTS: Trump is not being honest about his taxes.

Reporting by The New York Times, which obtained his tax records, contradict­s his claims.

The IRS does not charge taxpayers a filing fee, though tax preparatio­n services do. The $ 750 that Trump paid in 2016 and 2017 in the income taxes was to the federal government, not a tax preparatio­n service.

It’s not clear what Trump is talking about with regard to prepaying his taxes, but what matters is what he ultimately owed the government. Americans often have their income tax payments deducted from their paychecks. The Times reported that Trump, starting in 2010, claimed and received an income tax refund that totaled $ 72.9 million, which was at the core of an ongoing audit by the IRS. The Times said a ruling against Trump could cost him $ 100 million or more. Nor did Trump close his Chinese bank account, according to Alan Garten, a lawyer for Trump’s company. He told the Times the account remains open, though the company’s office in China has been inactive since 2015.

TRUMP: “Joe got $ 3.5 ( million) from Russia. And it came through Putin because he was very friendly with the former mayor of Moscow, and it was the the mayor of Moscow’s wife. And you got $ 3.5. Your family got $ 3.5 million. Someday you’re going to have to explain why.”

THE FACTS: There is no evidence of this. Trump is falsely characteri­zing a recent report by Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, who investigat­ed Biden’s son, Hunter, and his business dealings in Ukraine.

TRUMP on the toll of COVID- 19 in the U. S.: “So as you know 2.2 million people, modeled out, were expected to die.”

THE FACTS: This was his first line in the debate, and it is false. The U. S. death toll from the pandemic was not expected to be that high.

Trump often cites the number to put the reality of more than 200,000 deaths in a better light and to attempt to take credit for reducing projected mortality.

At an April 1 briefing, when Trump and his officials discussed an actual projection of 100,000 to 240,000 deaths.

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